Malcolm Lewis

Malcolm Lewis is an entrepreneurial technology executive focused on leveraging the Consumer Internet to drive new markets, new business models, and new revenues. He has a proven track record of establishing new markets and subsequently positioning his companies as leaders in these new markets. His last three ventures have resulted in two acquisitions by public companies and one of the most successful IPOs of all time.

Malcolm is currently Senior Vice President & General Manager, Private Label Local Search, for Local.com Corp. Prior to Local.com Corp, Malcolm was founder and CEO of PremierGuide, a company he built from scratch into the leading provider of private-label local search solutions to newspaper publishers and TV stations. Malcolm was one of the first entrepreneurs to identify the local search market in late 2002, ahead of subsequent market participation from leading web search providers, such as Google and Yahoo. He then pioneered the private-label local search market segment in 2003, and quickly established PremierGuide as the runaway leader in this new space. Malcolm sold PremierGuide to Local.com Corp. in 2007.

Prior to PremierGuide, Malcolm was Vice President of Marketing for Vayusphere, a corporate instant messaging startup, and a strategic marketing consultant for Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Previously, Malcolm was Vice President of Industry Communications for Vitria Technology, where he helped grow the company from an early-stage startup, with 30 employees and a single customer, to a public company with 1,100 employees and annual sales of $150 million. Malcolm led Vitria's creation of the business process management (BPM) segment within the enterprise application integration (EAI) market, and successfully positioned Vitria as the leading player in this new segment. He also played a central role in the company's hugely successful IPO, which generated one of the highest venture returns of all time.

Prior to Vitria, Malcolm was Director of Marketing for Interweave Software, a Web-based business intelligence software startup. Interweave was acquired by Cognos Corp in 1997. Prior to Interweave, Malcolm held product marketing and development positions in Oracle Corp's enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications division.

Malcolm holds a masters degree in Computer Science, with a specialization in artifical intelligence and expert systems, from Sheffield Hallam University in England. Malcolm also holds a bachelors degree in Sport Science from Liverpool John Moores University in England.

Email: malcolm dot lewis at gmail dot com